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Purple Line light rail vehicles are running to an actual station as part of testing! This testing runs from 9 pm to 5 am and started with New Carrollton.

The original testing was limited to the one one-milemile test track at the Glenridge Operations and Maintenance facility.

College Park CAT Meeting #15 | Purple Line MD Currently under construction, the Purple Line is a 16-mile light rail transit system with 21 stations running east to west, connecting Prince George’s and Montgomery counties in the state of Maryland.

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A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for a new book deal. The text of the Dear Report reads: "REWILD THE INTERNET By Maria Farrell Imprint: One Signal, Continuum Irish tech writer and speaker Maria Farrell's REWILD THE INTERNET: HOW TO RESIST BIG TECH showing how to resist today’s toxic tech monoculture and grow a flourishing, competitive internet ecosystem where we can live better, freer lives, to Alessandra Bastagli at One Signal at auction by Zoe Pagnamenta at Calligraph (NA) on behalf of Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton. UK & Comm rights to Octavia Stocker and Tomasz Hoskins at Bloomsbury Continuum by Antony Topping. Translation: krizzo@greeneheaton.co.uk

So, THIS is happening

"Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.

Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment.

(tk u @robin.berjon.com)

New entrants are great, I think SpaceX is genuinely impressive and their willingness to tolerate failure is part of how they do it. But the U.S. commercial sector also needs to regaining process knowledge and cutbacks to NASA, basic science, and the university research sector are going to cost us.

Fair, there's benefits and also risks. I say kudos to someone who doesn't sign up & shows up. All who show up at a protest accept some level of risk, varying due to personal choices and factors outside of our control. Performing courage is part of the point, but there's no one right way to do it.

Also, I mean mass protest is a performance and people will more likely show up if they make some sort of precommitment. And by people I do include myself in this, I'm more likely to do stuff I intend to do if I "signed up" for it in some form.

Comms around the event, alerting people to future events.

As an aside, when I donated to @vanhollen.senate.gov a couple of weeks ago (acknowledging one of the few normie Democrats who has been plainspoken on Gaza), it was actually difficult to find how to do it (in contrast to most elected officials whose web presences are designed as dollar funnels)

Van Hollen Criticizes Democratic Leaders for Delay in Endorsing Mamdani At an annual fund-raiser in Iowa, the Maryland Democrat said he supported Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City and said people were sick of “spineless politics.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City on Saturday and called on his party’s leadership to do the same, criticizing them for a delay that he said allowed President Trump to exploit Democratic divisions.

One of the things I have come to appreciate is that a good deal of Rome's success came from the fact that, as rapacious and opportunistic and bellicose as they could be, they mostly avoided giving unnecessary insult to their allies.

A virtue rare in antiquity as today; we used to be good at it.

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

I'll say again: This matters.

For months NYT has been pushing "Harvard is about to cave" line. That line is 100% in MAGA's interest. Every other institution will think, "If not even Harvard can stand up, how could we."

Today, NYT: Oh, I guess it's a disagreement WITHIN THE TRUMP TEAM.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

No one should be credibly concerned that losing to Clinton or Biden imperils their ability to persuade a plurality of voters in a future fair and free election. So the stakes are pretty asymmetrical.

Made an appointment with a self-attested (real though invisible) high risk condition. We’ll see how this goes. I suspect that access will be highly mediated by the willingness of individual pharmacists to administer vaccines. Medical professionals sadly are not immune to vaccine denial.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:

"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

On August 22, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) announced that famine is currently occurring in Gaza, marking only the fifth such classification since the IPC was formed in 2004 and the first in the Middle East.

Learn more from @foodwater.csis.org: www.csis.org/analysis/tra...

But if he knew he was causing mass death, I bet it would be under a Malthusian outlook. Reflexive fear of too many people is a common view & lots of people dying to prevent the survivors from being sullied by vaccines may fit with that.

I certainly can believe that there are actual eugenists out there, among his backers and staff, who think they can take public health from a public good to a private one and just take their own vaccines and get better personalized medicine via AI. (3/4)

Alternately, could be modern but delusional. Mao was obviously indifferent at best to causing mass death among his own people, but I think he expected collectivization to enhance Chinese agricultural productivity (2/3).

I think, like Trump's embrace of patrimony, a pre-modern anti-science worldview combined with being a brain-wormed celebrity parsimoniously explains his worldview. But genetic selection via IVF is now on the table & he doesn't seem to care and had a IVF skeptical VP pick. (1/2)

He fairly explicitly sees autism as a terrible fate, and thus plausibly worth risking death to avoid. But the magical thinking & ignorance in all of his statements seems compatible with just believing that everyone is healthier w/o vaccines because rigorous evidence has no place in his worldview.2/2

What's your confidence level? The Daskalakis resignation letter line is passive voice: “Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.” The eugenics history of ideas like wellness camps tracks... (1/2)

Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.

Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

Though I think more typical would be I spend more time / effort on the class, maybe go for tutoring, and then pull through with a mid grade and take another class covering some similar material at the same level rather than moving up to a 300 or 400 course or some such.

I'd be less likely to do so, but sure if I was passionate. Like it would come down "is this worth doing even if I don't have a knack for it?"

I think I would be most likely to retake it if it were a concept adjacent to my core topic that I was just struggling with.

I'd argue that the technological aspect of the superstar effect that results from the ability to mass distribute digital media matters more here than the economic system.

If we had a healthy social/economic/political culture it would be easier to address, but I don't think capitalism is the source

For a hopefully fun distraction question, do you have any opinion of the DC-area ball parks. (By which I mean Camden Yards and Nats Park, but any other league opinions are welcome too).